But no one was sure if Simon Cowell was going to pick up Zayn's contract since Zayn left the band that Simon's been championing for a while now! However we did know Simon had a "leaving member clause" in Zayn's contract with One Direction that totally gave him the option of keeping Zayn.

And it apparently looks as if Simon Cowell will not only pick up Zayn's option, but is expecting him to stay a part of his record label Syco for a long time!!

It's being reported that two NYPD police officers were shot in Brooklyn at around 3pm on Saturday, in what one law enforcement source called "an execution." The shooting took place near the Tompkins Houses apartment buildings at Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues. Both officers have reportedly died.

The gunman reportedly was "pumping bullets" into their patrol car, which they were sitting in. The gunman then ran to a nearby subway station, where he was shot and killed. It's not clear if the police shot him or if he killed himself.

A high-ranking police official said:

"The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up."

This is a completely tragic situation. Our thoughts are with the families and friends of theseofficers.

Alicia Keys signed on last year as BlackBerry's Global Creative Director and now her partnership with the smartphone company is coming to an end!

During her time with the company, the songstress worked on a number of projects which included BlackBerry's Keep Moving campaign and their scholarship for women looking to work in the fields of technology, engineering, mathematics, etc.!

The company released a statement following the announcement of her departure at the end of January. They said:

But now, the younger sister of Louis, Félicité Deakin (pictured above, left, with Louis), has figured out her own way to pay tribute to her mother in a very special manner, and we are SO touched by it.

On Friday, the 16-year-old Deakin shared the following image (below), a gorgeous portrait of the family with her late mother, Johannah Deakin, surrounded by all of her children: